The author of a shocking report on CIA interrogations during the Bush administration claims that certain operatives “lost control”once they were authorized to use enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding. The author claims that the following instances of torture took place that he is aware of: interrogators staged mock executions, they threatened to sexually assault a prisoner’s mother and kill another’s children, they scrubbed one inmate with a stiff brush until his legs were raw and they beat one man with a heavy torch.